MANY authors 1–5 reporting on disseminated pulmonary calcification have suggested that this entity represented healed miliary tuberculosis even though a history suggestive of acute miliary ...

THE treatment of hypertensive cardiovascular disease or congestive heart failure with a low-sodium diet is no longer considered an innocuous procedure. The recent observations of Soloff and Zatuchni 1 ...

Introduction: Early diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis (TB) are very important because of its high morbidity and mortality characteristics. However, the clinical ...

An Asian woman who immigrated to this country was diagnosed with miliary pulmonary TB per lung biopsy that showed a caseating granuloma. Both her purified protein derivative test and sputum culture ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using the mycobacteria growth indicator tube as an adjunct to tuberculin skin testing may improve early ...

No known additional active tuberculosis cases have developed — so far — from a person with active TB who was at 26 Clark County School District campuses and a training center in recent weeks, ...

From the sunbaked wastes of Arizona’s Navajo Reservation came dramatic news about the new TB drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3). The report was carefully evaluated in the gleaming tower of Manhattan’s ...

It is important to note that several reviews carried out in England, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Japan are relatively old and the findings were useful for health decision makers of respective ...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by mycobacteria. It mostly affects lungs but in some of the cases spine, kidneys as well as brain is also infected by the disease. TB infection on an ...

New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The 100-year-old Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine continues to play a crucial role in preventing Tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents. Tuberculosis is one of ...

A 12-year-old gymnast and dancer needs a hip replacement and will be unable to compete again after contracting a rare and potentially life-threatening disease when another person coughed. Jessica ...